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12 April 1922
King George V (Diana Mandache collection)
My dear Missy
Many thanks for your letter of the 3rd from Belgrade, where you had gone to help the king to arrange the house for Mignon’s reception; I am so sorry that you had to hurry away to Athena to be with Lisabetta as she has typhoid fever.
I trust you found her going on well & that she is not very seriously ill. Yes, it is a horrible illness & of course you are anxious as so many of your family have had it. It is just 30 years ago since I had it, the great thing of course is the nursing, which is so good in England. I am glad to hear you are pleased about Mignon’s engagement to Alexander, I know him & like him, & he certainly went through a dreadful time in the war. The only Drawback for her, there being no ladies of the family at all & I suppose there are not many people in society with whom she can make friends. But still I am sure she will be happy & her education in England will I hope be a help to her & she is used to live in a country like Serbia. I am thankful to say Mary is very happy with her husband who is just 40 & did extremely well in the war & was wounded several times & is a man of the world. They are coming here tomorrow I am glad to say, as I have hardly seen her since she married; they enjoyed their honeymoon in Florence. It was indeed most touching the enthusiasm shown by the enormous crowds in London on her wedding day & most gratifying to us. As I have already telegraphed to you this morning, I accept with great pleasure to be the principal sponsor at Mignon’s wedding & will be delighted to send Bertie to Belgrade to represent me. I hope you will let me know later what day in June you would like him to arrive there. I have also telegraphed to Alexander to tell him as you asked me to. I trust that something may come out of the conference at Genoa, there are certainly a great many difficulties to overcome especially when 30 nations are represented there. But the unrest in the world continues & most countries are nearly bankrupt, so something must be done otherwise civilization will disappear & we shall all be like poor Russia. I hope you will soon be able to return to Bucharest which means that Lisabetta is convalescent.
With best love from Mary & myself
I remain your devoted cousin
George
Source: RNA
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Yikes!!! George V!!! I am so glad that Missy didn’t marry him! What a bully and coward he turned out to be. Sorry if this is out of place here – I love your site and the lovely original letters that you post! – but George V was, in my view, so spineless a man!
A man who bullied his own children into submission to the extent that not one of them grew up as a fully balanced human being. A man whose greatest passion (apart from stamps) was killing little birds?? A man who could have saved his devoted ally Tsar Nicholas, and cousin, Tsarina Alexandra, but chose to not only protect his own back, but lay the responsibility for that decision on his government…and then whose wife picked over the jewels of those who did escape from Russia!!
People generally view the Kaiser as the villain of the First World War. The Kaiser had his problems, but George V…!!!!!
I love you site, Diana and it always provokes responses in me, one way or another
. Thank you!
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